NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

drex69 · 24 Sep 2014 at 18:52

ramdrive said:
Just had a little delivery from DPD, great service from OCUK

Let us know what you think of it, this if my first choice, just waiting
for some stock to arrive

JediFragger · 24 Sep 2014 at 18:52

stooeh said:
So Tri-SLI a waste of time on an i5 2500K Socket 1155 ? (EVGA Z68 FTW) PCIE 2.0
How about if a BIOS update would allow me to use ivybridge CPU + PCIE 3

Waste of time m8. Switch to a 3770k and grab a pair of 980's. A great basis for a sys that will last you a fair while!! :cool:

ubersonic · 24 Sep 2014 at 18:58

Quick warning to everyone, it appears that despite what EK say, the Galax 970 radials may not be compatible with existing water blocks after all, I will try and update this ASAP, however right now I would advise that these cards may not be compatible with existing blocks!.

elrasho · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:03

Got mine at 1416Mhz Core Clock and 4000Mhz Memory, temps max at 61C and can't even here the fans :cool:

Played 64 man BF4 on the Pearl Market map:

GTX680 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
127225 1608359 40 120 79.102

GTX970 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
96350 1168094 46 128 82.485

Not really impressed with just a 3fps increase on average tbh. Maybe it's because BF4 is more CPU dependant.

thefogo · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:03

Just sent my cards back, hopefully I can get a full refund then look at getting some different ones.

thefogo · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:06

elrasho said:
Got mine at 1416Mhz Core Clock and 4000Mhz Memory, temps max at 61C and can't even here the fans

Played 64 man BF4 on the Pearl Market map:

GTX680 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
127225 1608359 40 120 79.102

GTX970 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
96350 1168094 46 128 82.485

Not really impressed with just a 3fps increase on average tbh. Maybe it's because BF4 is more CPU dependant.

Yeah on this review they got ~45% increase on BF4, so something doesn't seem right there.

Cavallino · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:09

obraxis said:
The only reason you would swap a 780Ti for a 970/980 is for the energy efficiency and new tech. If you have money to burn great, but you wont see much of a performance boost.

Then again, it might lop off a decent amount off your energy bills if you game a lot.

Thanks. I don't game that much so will stick with the TI. Great card

ramdrive · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:16

drex69 said:
Let us know what you think of it, this if my first choice, just waiting
for some stock to arrive

It looks like a very well made card, the heat tubes are huge! I went for the ASUS as I liked the new power supply design and fan technology.

I will get her installed tomorrow and post some benchmarks

Ayahuasca · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:18

elrasho said:
Got mine at 1416Mhz Core Clock and 4000Mhz Memory, temps max at 61C and can't even here the fans

Played 64 man BF4 on the Pearl Market map:

GTX680 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
127225 1608359 40 120 79.102

GTX970 (Overclocked)

Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg
96350 1168094 46 128 82.485

Not really impressed with just a 3fps increase on average tbh. Maybe it's because BF4 is more CPU dependant.

64 player servers rely more on your CPU.

Freddy1765 · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:18

elrasho said:
Got mine at 1416Mhz Core Clock and 4000Mhz Memory, temps max at 61C and can't even here the fans

Played 64 man BF4 on the Pearl Market map:

SNIP

Not really impressed with just a 3fps increase on average tbh. Maybe it's because BF4 is more CPU dependant.

Is your sig up to date? You should've upgraded your CPU and motherboard to HW/Z97 instead of buying a 970 if you play BF4 a lot.

elrasho · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:19

thefogo said:
Yeah on this review they got ~45% increase on BF4, so something doesn't seem right there.

That was SP and the FOV is set to 70, I have it at 90. I think it's the game, gonna run Firestrike benchmark now just to make sure.

Bigbud · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:27

Very happy With this 24/7 Solid

Max temp 68

drex69 · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:27

ramdrive said:
It looks like a very well made card, the heat tubes are huge! I went for the ASUS as I liked the new power supply design and fan technology.

I will get her installed tomorrow and post some benchmarks

Can't wait

Let me know what you also think about the card's loudness under load,
should be silent at idle, as it can run passively.

setter · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:28

Tbh guys, with the state bf4 is in i wouldnt use it to judge performance. Quite often ill see fps drops into the 40's with sli 780's on a very laggy server.

Josu · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:29

Ayahuasca said:
Maybe you should just leave them stock, it's pretty simple:

With afterburner installed and no settings messed with it won't allow you to increase voltage anyway, so less likely to burn your card, not that +87mv would do that anyway as it seems it only really adds +32mv.

For a starting point try 110% power, +100 on the core and memory at +500mhz, most Samsung ram on these cards seems to be able to handle it fine.

Put the fan to 100% and run a benchmark such as firestrike or heaven. You can leave the fan at auto if you want, I just always max it for benchmarking.

If it works increase the core in 20mhz stages until it crashes or artifacts. Then lower it to the previous value that worked.

Do all this and then if you want extra from overvolting ask how to do that.

Thanks man! First i change my PSU, after i will try this

elrasho · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:32

elrasho said:
That was SP and the FOV is set to 70, I have it at 90. I think it's the game, gonna run Firestrike benchmark now just to make sure.

FireStrike score: 9921

Link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4145550

Does that seem right to you guys?

It's reporting my CPU at 2.6Ghz even though it's overclocked to 4Ghz. CPU-Z shows it at 4Ghz too.

thefogo · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:40

elrasho said:
FireStrike score: 9921

Link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4145550

Does that seem right to you guys?

It's reporting my CPU at 2.6Ghz even though it's overclocked to 4Ghz. CPU-Z shows it at 4Ghz too.

Seems about right.

Tom|Nbk · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:42

thefogo said:
Just sent my cards back, hopefully I can get a full refund then look at getting some different ones.

Why did you send them back?

I'm guessing the radial cooler is a nono to go for due to being fairly loud in SLI?

Josu · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:42

Now i have 650 watt PSU, to overclock this cards i think i need 850 minimum? Or take 1000 to look in future updates?)

elrasho · 24 Sep 2014 at 19:42

thefogo said:
Seems about right.

Thanks must be BF4 then relying on CPU than GPU. Used the Firestrik compare tool and others are getting around that score, although mine shows 2.6Ghz but it is still the highest score lol Wonder if thats because mines a free version of Firestrike.

With an i7 4790k the score goes upto 11873 so that's only 2000 more points than my i5. Don't think it's worth upgrading my CPU just yet.